Which preposition to use with vest

in Occurrences 343%

Dressing in coarse garments; yet most elegant when vested in his sacrificial apron and coronet!

with Occurrences 38%

BISMARCK looked a little the worse for wear, I thought, and, as he unbuttoned his vest with a grunt of relief, he struck me likewise as being rather short in his wind.

of Occurrences 37%

He wore a vest of fawn skin; his boots were black in the foot and finished with the softest red leather for the leg.

for Occurrences 6%

At length Cromwell fixed on a plan to accomplish his purpose by procuring the dissolution of the parliament, and vesting for a time the sovereign authority in a council of forty persons, with himself at their head.

on Occurrences 4%

I'll take the shine out of collar and pump, And their wearers will look silly When I once begin the Giraffe-Galump, The Chicken-Run and the Jaguar-Jump, The Wombat-Walk and the Buffalo-Bump, With a chamois vest on my manly chest, And football-boots and the smartest of suits They can cut in Piccadilly."

as Occurrences 3%

He issued it, "by virtue of the power in me vested as commander-in-chief of the army and navy of the United States in time of actual armed rebellion against the authority and government of the United States, and as a fit and necessary war-measure for suppressing said rebellion.

under Occurrences 3%

"When ... a law is in its nature a contract ... a repeal of the law cannot devest" rights which have vested under it.

to Occurrences 2%

Accordingly the real power of government came to be vested to a high degree in these unofficial political organizations, and where there was a strong man at the head of an organization his control came to be something very closely approaching dictatorship.

from Occurrences 2%

And she got then my change body-vest from the bundle of her torn garments, where she did put it to be washt on opportunity, even as now; and mayhap to like that it should lie in her bundle with her own garments, for so, as I do mind, the thought came to me very natural; but she to say naught to lead me thus; yet to be a very honest and dear Maid, and to have little secret ways of love, as I did perceive, that I did not be told of.

off Occurrences 2%

"I give him this vest off my own body," said the king; "let him wear it in the battle, and have no fear.

at Occurrences 1%

All socks, finnesko, and mits had long been coated with ice; placed in breast pockets or inside vests at night they did not even show signs of thawing, much less of drying.

without Occurrences 1%

The thread was twined; its parting meshes through From hand to hand her restless shuttle flew, Till the full web was wound upon the beam, Love's curious toil,a vest without a seam!

over Occurrences 1%

A man who tries that game is a good deal like the fellow who puts on a fancy vest over a dirty shirthe's the only person in the world who can't see the egg-spots under his chin.

pocketfor Occurrences 1%

When Rafael, escorted by his mother and half a dozen women who had witnessed the exercises, would come home, gleaming with medals and his arms full of diplomas, he would stoop and kiss his father's hard, bristly hand; and that claw would caress the boy's head and absent-mindedly sink into the old man's vest pocketfor don Ramón expected to pay for all welcome favors.

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